Microsoft has announced the next version of SQL Server 2008 is now available to volume license customers worldwide. Microsoft said that the release represents the company’s “further commitment ” to cloud computing technology. Improvements in R2 will include better reporting and analysis, enterprise scalability and improved efficiency, and wider platform integration. The platform integration will “spanning the datacentre to the cloud”.
“Until now, if business users wanted to take advantage of the large volumes of data their company collected, they had to ask their IT department to generate a report but with the managed self-service BI capabilities in SQL Server 2008 R2, they’ll be able to do such analyses themselves,” said Donald Farmer, principal program manager for SQL Server.
“That means they’ll be able to answer questions more quickly, experiment more, and test ‘what if’ scenarios. Organisations can become more agile. That’s exciting.”
